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"oh really"

Unfortunately for you @FLOTUS and @POTUS I wasn't alone when you sent me that video 😉 - H.https://t.co/sjfSQvkzb6

— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) April 29, 2016

new hobby alert!

Anthropomorphic Mouse, recently held above an American cabaret in what used to be the Bank of New York in London, is not a taxidermy class in the strictest sense: It is more like a cross between taxidermy and arts and crafts for beginners, using mice. The aim is to create scenes that look as if they are out of Beatrix Potter’s “Peter Rabbit” books, in which small animals wear clothes and hats and enjoy picnics, tea parties and lives of their own. (via)

speaking of apocalypses for buildings

The towers are oddly beloved by many people, especially architects, but the demolition serves as great theater. The three towers all collapse at once, and smoke rings bellow out of the top in the slow motion reel. While it's not the only time people have gathered to watch a demolition, the erasure of these cooling towers is particularly eerie, as they bring to mind apocalyptic images of nuclear meltdown. (via)

i recommend pushing play on "the voyager" and watching all the videos.

nErD aLeRt!

look at this awesome building in birmingham, englad that i never knew about. it's a selfridge's department store, whatever that is. doesn't it look like a despicable me character?

what IS that?!!?

if you don't know, now you know

DIG. HIM. UP.

i am just thrilled by the story about some british scientists that found the remains of richard iii buried under a parking lot in england. he was known to have a physical deformity (shakespeare depicted him as a hunchback), and it looks like they were right. get a load of that skeleton!

The parking lot sat on the site of a small church in Leicester where Richard of Gloucester was buried in 1485. When the Church was demolished in the 16th century, the exact location was lost until August of last year, when excavators decided to dig up the lot; one of the few remaining open areas in the city. The bones were found almost immediately and caught the archeologists' eyes, thanks to a severe curvature of the spine. Richard was famously believed to have a physical deformity, a feature made legendary by William Shakespeare's play about him—which also painted Richard as a vile schemer, who murdered his brothers, seduced his enemy's widow, and even had two young children locked in the Tower of London (and later executed) in order to claim the throne. (via)

i'm also thrilled that this topic was covered by 2Pz favorite gawker-er, caity weaver.

understanding the british

downton abbey season 3 trailer

premiering in 10 days, but not in america. sorry.

the story of "keep calm and carry on"

Remember?

We've been watching An Idiot Abroad: The Bucket List on the Science channel. I think it may be my favorite show on television, in part because I'm an anglophile. On my way to work, this other British thing came across my earholes, Remember?
As long as we are remembering British rappers from the early 2000's, Remember Dizee Rascal?

uh oh.

i think this movie might cause me to confuse my feelings about meryl streep with my feelings about margaret thatcher...

congrats PJ Harvey

thomas wilhelm's favorite album to listen to at work won the mercury prize for best british album of the year. if you havn't listened yet, download spotify and get to it.

guess what started today!

it's wimbledon! my favorite tennis event of the year! nadal and venus are getting things started today. free live streaming on espn3.com.

also.

pj harvey commisioned photographer seamus murphy to direct a video for each song on her album. you can see all that are out here. i really like this one.

npr is showing "on battleship hill" exclusively, for the time being.

a little tip.

if you haven't checked out pj harvey's new album, let england shake, i higly recommend you do so. she sings about history and war and england and america. it is 11 biscuits, i'm telling you.

here's a recent fresh air interview.

playing dead

this plucky little british lass was playing dead on her street when google street view rolled by taking pictures.

everyone was aghast. except her mom who said:

"I understand how some people might have thought the picture looked like a dead body—I just wish she was that quiet all the time."

from gawker, suggested by kylie in transit.

taranis-aurus rex!

check out this new futureplane that the british came up with! it's called taranis, and it doesnt need a person to fly it and is totes invisi on radars and stuff. this picture reminds me of iron man 2....

this is Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland

he is the crown prince of sweden, and he went to RISD to study graphic design. if any of you ever wanted to be a princess i just wanted to let you know he was out there. waiting. one thing though, you have to be a protestant, or be willing to become one if you want to make it work. here is a picture of him and his sister. he is currently 200th in line to become the king of england.

toot tooooOOOOoooOOoOooooTT!!

MERYL STREEP ALERT!

there are internet rumors that meryl's gearing up to play former british prime minister, margaret thatcher, in a movie entitled "the iron lady"!

this is gonna be a riot!